Thursday, September 24, 2009

Islam: Never an anti-Semitic Faith?

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, the renowned U.S. writer and broadcaster, was on Anderson Cooper 360 last night (Wednesday, September 23), discussing his noble and admirable activism against Ahmadinejad’s and Gadhafi’s visit to the United States.

The Rabbi was involved in demonstrations outside the U.N. and had also helped block plans for Gadhafi to set up a tent on the grounds of a Libyan compound next door to his home in Englewood, N.J.

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach’s pronouncements against Ahmadinejad on Cooper’s program were superb and to the point. He should be applauded and commended.

But the Rabbi made a curious comment while denouncing Ahmadinejad and calling for Muslims worldwide to shun him. He said: “Islam was never an anti-Semitic faith.”

Is this really so?

If Islam was never an anti-Semitic faith, I would like to ask the following:

Why was the Muslim Brotherhood’s founder, Hassan al-Banna, a devout admirer of Adolf Hitler? Why did the Nazis help create the organization? And why, by the end of World II, did the Muslim Brotherhood have a half million Arab Nazis as members?

Why did the grand mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, meet with Hitler on November 28, 1941 and request Nazi assistance in engendering a Middle Eastern Final Solution?

Why, for Sayyid Qutb, an Islamist Godfather, did the Jews represent the “eternal enemy” of Islam?

Why is Mein Kampf circulated so widely in the Muslim world? Why is it a bestseller among Palestinians? Read more ...